Thursday, January 24, 2008

Grinfield Lectures

Dr Jennifer Dines, CSA (Cambridge)‘The Book of the Twelve:Translation, Interpretation and Current Research’

Part twoThurs, 21 February: ‘Devices and Desires: Clues to Translational Agenda’Thurs, 28 February: ‘Endings and Beginnings: Order Matters’Thurs, 6 March: ‘Reading the Twelve: Approaches Old and New’Dr Jennifer Dines is Chair of Council of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology in Cambridge. She is the author of The Septuagint (London, 2004) and a contributor in the French translation and commentary series La Bible d’Alexandrie. She was co-editor of the recent volume Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers (University of California Press, 2007). In 2007, Dr Dines delivered Part One of this series on the LXX Minor Prophets.

*All are warmly invited. The lectures will be held in the Examination Schools, The High Street, Oxford.

1 comment:

I must say I always wondered who wrote the Septuagint, a work which I see you imply to be more an original composition than a translation, hence "author" rather than "translator". But I hadn't expected this brilliant author to be a woman or to still be alive. The "(London, 2004)" publication data is presumably of a reprint. ;-)

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